Photographs (left to right): Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

Condolence Council Summons Belt

belt

Courtesy Six Nations Polytechic Institute

Conversation in Cultural Fluency Lecture Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrKu736Kj4

Reproduction R.D. Hamell May 01 2020

Original Size:	Rows: 9. Length" 44.75 inches. Width: 2.25 inches. Rows: 9. Columns 270.
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 42.5 inches. Width: 4.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 66.5 inches.
Beads:	Rows 9. Columns: 270.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew

Description:

Kanesatake Summons Wampum was meant to impress upon the recipients the need to send official delegates to special Condolence Council to mourn the loss of a recently departed chief and the installation of his replacement.

Mohawk belt collected by Frank G. Speck from Kanesatake, Quebec in 1913. Heye Foundation/Museum of the American Indian accession #16/3287. Courtesy of the Haudenosaunee Standing Committee on Burial Rules and Regulations.

Photographs (left to right): Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

Condolence Council Summons Belt

Courtesy Six Nations Polytechic Institute

Original Size:

Rows: 9. Length" 44.75 inches. Width: 2.25 inches. Rows: 9. Columns 270.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 42.5 inches. Width: 4.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 66.5 inches.

Beads:

Rows 9. Columns: 270.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew

Kanesatake Summons Wampum was meant to impress upon the recipients the need to send official delegates to special Condolence Council to mourn the loss of a recently departed chief and the installation of his replacement.